Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Well, I also thought about that. I am working on an DOS application I wanted to package into FreeDOS's format by default. My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where my app is inside and to start

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
It looks like you want it more reliable... Sounds very reasonable. Actually more pros (more easy for you, faster) then cons (file size). As you have the most work with it, do it. -mr Mateusz Viste schrieb: Hi people! So far, we have always used packaging sources and binaries differently

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: It's a client and not a network drive. So a network drive that shows you a directory of a network server would be no network client? You can perhaps always call it client. But network drive is only the right word if it works in background and you get an

Re: [Freedos-user] sshdos - was: network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
There is - SSHDOS v0.95 November 25, 2003 and - SSH2DOS v0.2.1 from April 23, 2006 Why the more recent version has a lower version number? What are the differences? There is also patch ROM-DOS Sockets patch from August 25, 2008, what does it do? -mr Alain M. schrieb: Michael Reichenbach

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel? Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would have to re-implement LFN from scratch and there is

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: From that view it's not possible for non-cooperates (individual hobbyist projects) to develop and publish software. You would always need a legal department which is telling it's ok to violate patents, if them are are accusing us we will accuse them with out collection

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel? Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would have to re-implement LFN from scratch and there is

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: I would expect this type of thinking to defeat the patent. So educate me why am I wrong. :) Well, the final verdict gives always the court. Unfortunately not always the logic wins. (I haven't said anything about bribemoney!) It also depends on the technical understanding of

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: However, I just care about laws in my own country (and the national ones). As I live in Germany I see no reason to ensure to follow all US laws (no racism or whatever here, just the same way I do not ensure it for any other country where I do not life). It seams to me

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: Not the programmer of DOSLFN would be sued, also probable not the hypothetical programmer for LFN in DOS-C. I think it's the distributor who would get sued and this is in this case the responsible person for the website. (Fortunally also other people are redistribution

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: By the way I must repeat the question who would be theoretically sued?. I would think the end users. For Example: Companies that distribute new PCs with FreeDos installed. someone that sold FreeDos on a bootable USB Someone that sold and built CD for open source. And why

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Jim Hall schrieb: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Well, it would be theoretically possible to implement something like ext3 as most DOS applications use the filesystem API and not the disk directly, them wouldn't recognize. But this wouldn't be a good solution as there are still much more other patents we might have not considered yet. -mr

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
David C. Kerber schrieb: -Original Message- From: Jim Hall [mailto:jh...@freedos.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:30 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility? ... If LFN

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Wiki

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
The new and up to date and linked on freedos.org wiki seams to be http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Main_Page. While when I google for freedos wiki I still find http://wiki.fdos.org/. Can the old wiki be linked on freedos.org? It still contains some informations.

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Also according to http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility it also seams doslfn is not the answer and needs bugchecking by a third developer. Even kernel support would have some of those issues, it seems only not very fast

[Freedos-user] Microsoft employee recommends FreeDOS, ctmouse, shsucdx

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
FreeDOS - http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/02/365232.aspx ctmouse, shsucdx - http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx -- ___

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: LFN for FAT and for NTFS are working stable in Linux. Could a FreeDOS developer grab this free knowledge from Linux and improve DOSLFN this way? FAT and FAT32 are already supported by DOSLFN, even some CD-ROM filesystems are. NTFS is not supported by any free

Re: [Freedos-user] FASM and DPMI

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
cleanzero schrieb: I was trying to using the flat assembler FASM on freedos, but it complains about missing DPMI services ? Is it possible in some way to use it ? http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.DPMI example: hdpmi32 -r

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
This is an interesting topic... If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device letter, unfortunately it's indeed a memory hog and

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: Uli, I bought ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card. http://www.orinocowireless.com/products/wifi/client/goldpccard/index.html I know wireless is a risk but I checked in the documentation it had dos and linux drivers :) and I downloaded the ISO with all of that on it. Well, wlan is

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: But I can do that from another pc that i usually have next to me. but it would be nice to have a complete evironment. And I have forgotten to say... You are most likely much faster with browsing the web and mailing if you use a modern computer, modern multi tasking operating

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: But yeah I was thinking that I would cheat for some of the stuff for developing on FreeDos at first but later I would try and do everything I could inside. Cheat? Which kind of? Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your development more worse? That's s

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Groessler schrieb: Hi, If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic. No, since you asked for connecting to file server share in

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ok, now I got your point and must agree. :) -mr usul schrieb: mr, Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your development more worse? That's s strange mind. :) I'm strange I admit that but thats not whyI think it would be cheating, you are coming from the wrong

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Christian Groessler schrieb: Hi, If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Groessler schrieb: Hmm, talking to a SMB server probably is quite involved (I've tried to debug some samba problems in the past and the probably in the last sentence is wrong). But how about a new, simple, protocol to transfer directory information and files between hosts? Nothing

[Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00? -mr -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00? As far as I can tell, 8.00 is the same as 7.10 plus some restrictions (I used to have a PC with Windows Me). Yes, well 8.00 can load Win ME.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos and vmware problem

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Reichenbach
alfio castorina schrieb: Hi, I want to install freedos on my Macbook Pro using VMWare Fusion. Problem is that after booting from the cd image and creating the C: partition after reboot I get the message invalid operating system. I suspect that is due that Freedos has not been installed yet and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on NTFS as image with full read and write access / FreeDOS installer for Windows soon?

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change the partition table or the bootsector.

Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! Another thing will be a list of things to test... Well, things like xmstest, memtest, idecheck Those are not kernel related as far as I remember. Not related to kernel, but to hardware and base software. You can see if the change has broken something in a special

Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Could you please test whether aborting some other application (no COMMAND.COM type program) works in FreeDOS? Yes, first he application will be terminated and then also the command interpreter which results in the same bug. Well this shouldn't happen (and won't be

[Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Reichenbach
website: http://au.geocities.com/short_stop_pacific/freesoft/system.htm look for ESCAPE / BREAK (documentation, binary and source) it's an TSR which provides to quit any application, those without quit button and also hanging applications. In MS-DOS 7.1 with no config.sys/autoexec.bat it works.

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Horvath schrieb: I have PocketDOS installed on my PDA. It loads a bootable version of FreeDOS from a floppy disk image. I'm having trouble figuring out where AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS are located on this disk. Where can I find it? Until now I wasn't aware of the PocketDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
John Ames schrieb: Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by either the default packet driver or the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi, Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. You mean USB legacy support (for storage)?

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did not thought about your modified use. Ok, well you can experiment if you have

Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Johnson Lam schrieb: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds,

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if menu

[Freedos-user] eltorito.sys also working for not-booted devices

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Originally eltorito.sys was only designed to work for a boot sequence like: BIOS - CD-ROM with no-emulation bootloader (for example syslinux) - memdisk - DOS - eltorito.sys eltorito.sys continues to use the BIOS to access the device. I discovered that eltorito.sys can be also used for CD-ROM

[Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I have a question about the fdfullcd.iso. It's a bit unclear for me... The menu: 1. Install to harddisk using FreeDOS SETUP (default) 2. FreeDOS Safe Mode (don't load any drivers) 3. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM + EMM386 4. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM only 5. FreeDOS Live CD only In

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on NTFS as image with full read and write access / FreeDOS installer for Windows soon?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change the partition table or the bootsector.

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Blair, I think using aspi.sys you can use cdrecord with it. Maybe I will test it if I can get FreeDOS to boot on my laptop (1.0 CD kernel fails to boot). Does the Rugxulo.googlepages.com kernel work? You can use the floppy images there to make boot CD / DVD...

Re: [Freedos-user] generic boot... - booting from raw cd/dvd

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Bernd Blaauw schrieb: Eric Auer schreef: mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K? more?). The Coreboot project

Re: [Freedos-user] generic boot... - booting from raw cd/dvd

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Bernd Blaauw schrieb: Eric Auer schreef: mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, I need a variable %bootdevice% (or w/e) pointing to the current session's boot device (A:\ or C:\). Nice :-) Is there such a variable or can you tell me how to set this variable automatic in batch? I do not remember one, but it is extremely easy to do:

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error due to write protection. How this can be solved? Did you set the TEMP or TMP environment variable to a directory on a writable drive? No, there is no writable device. Well, I could

Re: [Freedos-user] RxDOS

2009-02-07 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Besides, I'm too egoistic to write or re-write major parts of something when this new version isn't accepted because it isn't tested enough. That was the case with the unstable DOS-C version 2037 (which had many features version 2036 and the upcoming 2038 don't

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Note that this would mean that you have to find the sources of ELTORITO.SYS - nu2.nu says it is now free / unmaintained but sources are not yet public - and add ELTORITO and also SHSUCDX into the kernel itself. Otherwise you will be able to boot the kernel, but

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
pcdos2k schrieb: i don't recommend creative SB pci cards for use in DOS. it's great in windows and linux, but it is a pain to setup in dos. Only the setup is a pain? Rest ok? if you already have it, then go for it. here are two websites to help you setup your SBPCI:

[Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another harddisk after a simple copy. I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or memtest+ also has. Can you provide such a generic

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another harddisk after a simple copy. I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or memtest+ also has. Can you

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
For demonstration purposes I created a fdos.bin. I would like to send it to the list but I don't think sending files to the list will work or is warm welcomed. It's a generic file you can use to chainboot finally kernel.sys. If you want it tell me and I send it private. In boot.ini you just need

[Freedos-user] Problems after adding more RAM

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Recently I did expand my computer from 1 GB to 2 GB of RAM. Finally I checked that it's running well with Memtest86+ V2.11. I am also pretty sure that the harddisk can not be the problem as it's a mobile disk and working on other configurations ok. For now I found two strange behavior. At

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! If I wanted to protect my mona lisa, I would encrypt it and put the key in the first 640k where I can be sure the BIOS wipes them :-p You can only encrypt the harddisk, not the RAM. Yes you can encrypt and/or compress RAM, but of course you get lower performance.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Santiago Almenara schrieb: Thanks for all your answers. From all your mail, I understood this: - There is not such thing as VESA audio Unfortunately... - SoundBlasters, especially SB16, are the common de facto for DOS system (I used to have an ISA one, so I won't be able to use

[Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I need a variable %bootdevice% (or w/e) pointing to the current session's boot device (A:\ or C:\). Is there such a variable or can you tell me how to set this variable automatic in batch? regards, -mr -- Create

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Thank you! Is there also some documentation about the DOS part available? What is the equivalent for /dev/mem or /dev/hda under DOS? Jim Hall schrieb: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Is there a port of dd for DOS? http

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
the whole RAM (mainly only 32 bit - 2 GB, but 4 GB or even more in 64 bit are also interesting) and write it into a raw image (also called sometimes flat or .img). - Also interesting for disk cloning, reading a whole drive and storing it as a raw image. -mr Michael Reichenbach escreveu: What

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! - I would like to read the whole RAM (mainly only 32 bit - 2 GB, but 4 GB or even more in 64 bit are also interesting) and write it into a raw image (also called sometimes flat or .img). The BIOS int 15.87 lets you access the first 4 GB, if you want to access more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alain M. schrieb: if you use VMware you will nedd another driver... VMware creates a virtual machine and that means that everything is virtual. Including that your virtual machine will allways be the same regardless of what your real hw is, and will remain unchaged forever which is fery

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! I am not using any kind of virtualization software for it. Okay so you use DOS in real hardware. Do you think this card is also compatible with the Intel HDA ??? Depends. Modern mainboards use HDA or AC97 for sound. Only modern DOS software like MPXPLAY can use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! Off-list reply from me: Basically most of the information can be summarized by giving the DevelSound and that other sound related URL in the drdoswiki, so maybe you could post those along with a summary of what can be found there in a mail to this thread here? The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi, was some effort to collect funds to make people like Japheth, Tom, Georg, Arkady (just examples!) do it. You mean the thread in bttr? Yes. And I mean please mention ALL URLs in ONE easy to google in the list archive mail: DOS soundcard Wiki, VSB ponderings Wiki,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Santiago Almenara schrieb: Thanks Alain: n Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: if you use VMware you will nedd another driver... VMware creates a Virtual machine and that means that everything is virtual. Including that your virtual machine will allways be the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
And I must add, if you have a newer notebook without DOS-compatible sound hardware then there is unfortunally no way to get sound to work. -mr Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Hi! Sorry, but I think depending on what you plan to do you will not have much fun in DOS with that card. But look

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Some options: a) installing just means creating MBR, creating bootsector, copying system files plus copying some applicaitons, there is no force to use an installer, you can do this copying steps yourself b) you can boot grub4dos from USB and emulate then the freedos installer iso and install to

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll FreeDOS and NTFS

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi again, recently I had an off-list discussion about the possibility of booting DOS from NTFS... This leads to the question, how happy are you with the existing solutions? Unhappy. - you can boot DOS from FAT, then load NTFS4DOS which is read/write, free for

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Eric Auer wrote: - would you want a compressed filesystem to be writeable? The question to me is: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all? My discouraging answer: I just don't need it. I never used compressed filesystems anywhere, rather I buy a bigger

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Robert, Travis, Robert wrote: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all? My discouraging answer: I just don't need it. I think, what FreeDOS needs for daily use is a good graphical web browser, a nice e-mailer, a word processor like Abiword, FOSS USB drivers,

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Robinson schrieb: As far as compressed filesystems are concerned or supporting NTFS, you are getting away from being 100% MS DOS compatible. No, it depends on how it's being implemented. Freedos isn't 100% compatible yet, more reverse engineering needs to be done to make it so.

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: NTFS4DOS has one problem...it isn'T a TSR you can start it at commandline or autoexec.bat and it will start a second layer of command.com. This will eat memory of 640k but should work with most programs. Could it be loaded as the shell so it only stats a first

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
- You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB?

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Wouldn't it be a good idea to get a backup of the wiki in case it's gone someday? Jim Hall schrieb: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Florian Xaver f...@drdos.org wrote: Hi! Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should move it. We also have a FreeDOS Wiki now. I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but most of them are for PCI SCSI cards and therefore none was working. Why do you think, that SCSI drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I didn't think it, it was just try and error. It could have worked for the same reason the eSATA PCI card is compatible with my BIOS if booted SCSI. This is a false conclusion. ;-) In your BIOS setup the setting is just *wrongly

[Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Me was writing most of that page so I am aware of booting / AHCI / IDE Emulation and such... http://www.drdos.org/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HardDisks I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! :) Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should move it. By the way we have already a similar page http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.USB merge it? Didn't you know that great page? :) The syslinux method is imho a bit complicated,

Re: [Freedos-user] help: need a tool to write MBR to harddisk

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Which utility you are talking about? Джандуарлем Абдулаихим schrieb: These utility you can write itself in the Turbo-C 2.0. It's a simply - reads write series of sectors as one big string of data. Use biosdisk() function for make them result.

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS and Freedos 1.0...

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Robinson schrieb: Is there a way to install ReactOS and Freedos together in the same vmware 6 virtual machine? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the

Re: [Freedos-user] kernel.sys; command.com - debug versions?

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Debug versions of kernel.sys produce a lot of technical messages, which might scroll away before you can type them over ;-). I will solve this as this problem will appear, see below. For now, please link to the debug version! :) Well, is there even some? You can, by the

Re: [Freedos-user] Sector read-writes.

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Reichenbach
If you like testing and don't want to kill your running system I recommend using an emulator and testing in a virtual system. regards, -mr kurt godel schrieb: Was following this thread. Dowloaded findpart; according to the readme, type findpart followed by the name of the utility,say, getsect

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric schrieb: Alternatively, you could search for a dos port of dd dd for DOS sounds interesting. Was there ever a DOS port? There is dd for Windows, does someone got it to run under HX DOS Extender? -- SF.Net email is

[Freedos-user] kernel.sys; command.com - debug versions?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Having kernel.sys and command.com are the most minimal way to start FreeDOS I know. I've successfully managed to find a configurations of parameters where FreeDOS is crashing before I can use the command prompt. The reason for the freeze couldn't be detected just by describing the parameters

Re: [Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
, but only the PCMCIA and some PCI models. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: Michael Reichenbach escreveu: Wouldn't

Re: [Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
- ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: Michael Reichenbach escreveu: Wouldn't it be a good idea to create a DOS Hardware Database? Similar to http://www.drdos.org/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.SoundCardChip We could just use that one :) DrDOS

[Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Reichenbach
I've just read the article about W-LAN under DOS. Very interesting. It's unclear to me which W-LAN hardware has drivers for DOS. Perhaps my Realtek USB key doesn't have DOS drivers, if I would have know this before I might have selected another product. (I am still thinking about.) The supported

[Freedos-user] prepackaged USB driver bootdisk

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! There was a prepackaged USB driver bootdisk with all available DOS USB drivers, trying to connect a device and if failed automatically unloading this driver and trying the next driver from another producer. I found it in past somewhere on google. Unfortunately I've deleted it by mistake and

[Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Under XP I am using Virtual Floppy to to mount and edit virtual floppy images (.img). Is there a similar software for FreeDOS? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of

Re: [Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Seams like you can temporary mount the disk and start an application. But it can't permanently mount it with a drive letter? Mateusz Viste schrieb: On Saturday 06 December 2008 18:34, Michael Reichenbach wrote: Under XP I am using Virtual Floppy to to mount and edit virtual floppy images (.img

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated Antivirus for dos

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Antivirus for DOS is good like Antivirus for *any barely used OS*, because the barely used OS isn't target for viruses. Therefore you can use it as second operating system and/or other boot medium (USB, CD or w/e) and do a robust scan. -mr Jonathan W. schrieb: I'm not sure there'd be much to

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Compatable Soundcards in PCI?

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Reichenbach
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.SoundCardChip Spiro Gulgas schrieb: Now that i got a new PC, i'll be using my older one (2001 - not that old, today's standards make it seem like an IBM PC). Just Wondering is there any dos compatable soundcards with PCI

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos and 98 dual boot.

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
The dual booting thing shouldn't be hard. Perhaps you do it a lot more complicated then you need. Two things you need to confirm: 1) Does FreeDOS work as single as like you want? 2) Does Win98 work as single as like you want? If you can answer both questions with yes then you are ready for multi

Re: [Freedos-user] porting for DOS of aircrack

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
How often do you need to recover you wlan key? :) -mr iw2evk schrieb: Hi, i've found this intersting command line program for wavelan users. it's possible make a porting for dos? http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php open source drivers for wavelan can be found via this page:

[Freedos-user] dmake download?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Can anyone sponsor please a download for dmake for DOS? I can't find it anywhere on the net. Regards, -mr - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

[Freedos-user] dmake usage

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I am reading and following http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Building_wxMGL_Port Currently I am stuck at the first mentioned dmake. I've downloaded http://www2.inf.fh-rhein-sieg.de/~skaise2a/ska/sources/suppl26a.zip from http://www2.inf.fh-rhein-sieg.de/~skaise2a/ska/sources.html and copyed

Re: [Freedos-user] dmake usage

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I am reading and following http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Building_wxMGL_Port A very complicated way for a library only. ;-) Yeah. :| But the demos are very impressive. wxWidgets on pure DOS sounds very well. Currently I am stuck

Re: [Freedos-user] greetings

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Welcome. :) Regards, -mr Braden Mailloux schrieb: Hello, Everyone; My name is Braden and I'm a new user to FreeDOS. I've successfully installed FreeDOS to my old Dell laptop (the cd-rom drive held out!). I'm pretty new to computers, even though they've been in my life for some time now.

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